Yeshua Is The Gate AND the Way

Yeshua doesn't just show people the gate they need to walk through. He is also the way to walk through it.

The narrow road that few will find is sanctification by asking and receiving. Yeshua did nothing on His own. His Father provided everything He needed for a life of good works. The beauty of what Yeshua was willing to do is that He came in the flesh. He let Himself be born vulnerable, weak... human!

An antichrist Spirit denies this basic truth:

1 John 4:1-3 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world. (2) By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, (3) and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world.

Yeshua then "sanctified himself" which means took himself out of the fleshes way (the world's way) of living and submitted Himself to God's prescribed way of living: on every word God speaks.

John 17:18-21 As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. (19) And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth. (20) "I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; (21) that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me.

Jesus prayed. That is how He lived. Every. Single. Thing. He prayed, asked for, and received.

Jesus didn't do good things on His own.

Jesus didn't love people by gritting His teeth and trying.

Jesus didnt live generously on His own.

Jesus wasn't unselfish on His own.

He was tempted every way you are. He just picked a different WAY to live:

John 5:19-20 Then Jesus answered and said to them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner. (20) For the Father loves the Son, and shows Him all things that He Himself does; and He will show Him greater works than these, that you may marvel.

This is the narrow road few will ever find. It is so simple anyone, even a thief on a cross next to Yeshua, can do it, and so simple few will. Pride keeps us fromthe narrow road.

This is the narrow road: you have to change, but you can't change yourself, so you need to recognize where you need a savior and tell God about it, not accepting, but not trying to fix it in your flesh. Simply recognizing YOUR poverty and HIS generosity.

This is how you get the true leadership of God and the power of God working in your life.

Matthew 7:7-14 "Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. (8 ) For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. (9) Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? (10) Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent? (11) If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him! (12) Therefore, whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets. (13) "Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. (14) Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.

Simply telling people they have to get better is to put a heavy load on them. Telling people the good news of HOW we get the leadership of Yeshua... becoming transformed by seeing how He lives and asking the Father to conform our lives to His son...

This lifts the load of the flesh off a person and puts them in the river of living water. If you don't drink it, you can't release it.

John 4:10-14 Jesus answered and said to her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, 'Give Me a drink,' you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water." (11) The woman said to Him, "Sir, You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water? (12) Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock?" (13) Jesus answered and said to her, "Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, (14) but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life."

This is why Samantha and I pray in corporate prayer meetings every day. It's where we find the river. Its where we change. We don't pray because we are good. We pray because He is.

2 Corinthians 3:16-18 Nevertheless when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. (17) Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. (18) But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.